60+ Spooky and Creative Halloween Craft Projects

Transform your home into a haunted house with these chilling (and eerily easy) craft ideas.

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Pumpkin Diorama

Pumpkin Diorama

This craft pairs materials from your own yard with an 11¼"W x 14"H black Funkin. To get started, print our carving templates; cut, as indicated, to create stencils for the tree-framed opening and moon at the back.

With a felt-tip pen, trace the designs onto your Funkin, then carve. Spray-paint the Funkin's interior black (Krylon Colormaster, $6.49 for 12 oz.; amazon.com); let dry one hour. Place a green Styrofoam disk inside the faux pumpkin as a base. Using our photo as a guide, stick twigs into the base to form trees, then cover the base with moss ($16.92 for 8 oz.; amazon.com). Finally, hot-glue a wolf figurine to a rock, and set it and other rocks atop the moss (plastic wolf, $5; 1½"L; amazon.com).

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Pumpkin Diorama

This craft pairs materials from your own yard with an 11¼"W x 14"H black Funkin. To get started, print our carving templates; cut, as indicated, to create stencils for the tree-framed opening and moon at the back.

With a felt-tip pen, trace the designs onto your Funkin, then carve. Spray-paint the Funkin's interior black (Krylon Colormaster, $6.49 for 12 oz.; amazon.com); let dry one hour. Place a green Styrofoam disk inside the faux pumpkin as a base. Using our photo as a guide, stick twigs into the base to form trees, then cover the base with moss ($16.92 for 8 oz.; amazon.com). Finally, hot-glue a wolf figurine to a rock, and set it and other rocks atop the moss (plastic wolf, $5; 1½"L; amazon.com).

Trevor Dixon

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Truly Fine Art

Just as Charlotte's webs attracted admirers, so too will these delicate displays. Using tape or tacks, secure vintage doilies to the open backs of black frames. The white crochet looks especially moody hung on a deep-hued wall.

No-Carve Raven Pumpkin

A bell jar gives this no-carve specimen the star treatment. Download, print, and cut out our bird or feather template; then trace the out-line onto a pumpkin. Next, use a fine-tip brush to fill in with black flat acrylic paint ($1.54 for two ounces; createforless.com). Let dry for one hour, then rest the pumpkin on a bed of moss inside a cloche ($39.95 - $79.95; englishcreekgardens.com).

Pumpkin Owls

Start with brown and black cupcake liners. Create eyes and wings for your owl by cutting out the inside of the wings, an eyelid and circle out of the black liner. Glue on the black cut outs to create two owl eyes. Next, create the nose and wings with black construction paper. Make sure to cut off the stem from the pumpkin you will be using as a base. Use hot glue on the top pf the bottom pumpkin and secure the top pumpkin before the glue dries. Use hot glue to secure all owl features.

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Corny Party Favors

When it comes to Halloween handouts, there's perhaps nothing more iconic than candy corn. These sweet burlap gift bags inspired by the tricolored confection make for charming (and reusable!) takeaways at Halloween get-togethers. (Sugar high not included.)